Github user jeking3 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1459
At this point we should consider dropping go 1.6. Other go projects have
moved on and we can too. I had a discussion with someone about whether it
makes sense to support older go versions, and they said back to 1.7 makes
sense, but 1.6 to 1.7 was a breaking change. Separately, we might dump the
trusty CI build environment. Not sure about that yet.---
